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What if a genetic modification, a nanobot in the brain, or a cognitive booster pill gave people more learning capacity? How would it change your job? Although not likely to be viable for a decade or more, all of these possibilities are being explored today. Using scienc...More »

What skills will be in demand in the 2012 workplace? The answer depends on whom you ask and whose skills you're talking about. But the short answer is that no one escapes the need to acquire some new ones.More »

A young man we know recently made a career move some would find unthinkable. He left a software engineering job at Google to go to work for a little-known startup with few perks and no charisma to speak of. Among his reasons for making the switch was his sense that Goog...More »

Blame it on the balanced scorecard. Though not the first to devise a business scorecard, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton set off a flurry of interest in people-related metrics with the publication of their 1996 book The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into...More »